john. >> reporter: marimaria, it's sta wait, though. that line in new york got longer at the fifth avenue store. more than 800 people when the doors opened. hard to gauge exactly what that means, though. a number of other new york stores were closed, of course, in the south of manhattan because of hurricane sandy cleanup. now, here in palo alto, still plenty of back ipad minis in stock. i took a look at the number of reservation cards. looks like there are well over 50 cards. they say they have 16, 32, and 43 gigabyte models in stock. it just got really crowded. lots of people coming in and getting minis. gene muenster of piper jaffray estimates over 1 million. maybe they'll put out a number next week. i haven't heard any word on that either way. >> all right, john. thanks so much. the ipad may be getting smaller, but the tablet space is becoming a big battleground. hewlett-packard no doubt one of the key players in the space. todd bradley joins me now to talk about that. thank you for joining us. >> good to be here. >> what do you thin